Word: kenichi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...garden. The enticing entrance is merely the facade of a $65 million facility built to handle a dirty job: recycling the wastes of the city's 340,000 residents. "We collect roughly 100,000 tons of garbage a year and convert it back into valuable materials," says a smiling Kenichi Usui, a city waste-management official. He has good reason to be boastful. Japan, which is fast becoming the world's premier industrial power, is also in the forefront of effective waste management...
...laser players sold in the U.S., soldiered on alone, going into the software business as well, but discs remained mostly the playthings of film fans and technofreaks until CDs revolutionized the audio market. "The triumph of the CD is giving the laser- disc industry a tremendous help," says Kenichi Ohmae, a top management consultant in Tokyo. Voyager's Robert Stein is blunter: "At the consumer level, CDs completely saved the ass of laser discs...
...years ago sells today in Japan for only $12 to $15. Since 1975 the price of a simple hand-held calculator has decreased from about $25 to $10. That drop has forced more than 30 Japanese companies out of the calculator business, leaving six firms at the moment. Says Kenichi Ohmae, manager of Tokyo operations for the McKinsey & Co. businessconsulting firm: "By no definition can this fierce rivalry be construed as rational long-term planning. Even the winners look less like planners than participants in a demolition derby...
Until Chemist Kenichi Fukui won a Nobel Prize in 1981 for his mathematical explanation of chemical reactions, he was more widely recognized abroad than at home. Indeed, when he first propounded his novel ideas 30 years ago, many of his Japanese colleagues scoffed...
...follows in the footsteps of his late father Karl Siegbahn, the 1924 laureate in physics.* The other half of the award will be shared equally by two Americans, Nicolaas Bloembergen, 61, a Dutch-born Harvard professor, and Arthur Schawlow, 60, of Stanford. The prize in chemistry will go to Kenichi Fukui, 63, of Japan's Kyoto University, and Roald Hoffmann, 44, of Cornell University...